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Are There Too Many People?

Past Present Future

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The Right Malthusianism

Malthus saw poverty as both natural and inevitable. He used his theory to argue for the gradual abolition of state-supported food aid. The idea that people found so horrifying in this essay when it first appeared is that we should just let people starve.

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